few_shots: Example:
Problem/activity:
Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to create composite shapes and compose new shapes from composite shapes. For example, students may find that a rectangular prism can be made from four triangular prisms or from eight smaller cubes. Students then discover that they can combine two of the composed rectangular prisms to make a new rectangular prism.
Required Materials
Materials to Gather
Geoblocks
Launch
Groups of 4
Give each group geoblocks.
Display a large cube.
“This cube can be built from other shapes. See how many ways you can build a cube using other shapes.”
3 minutes: partner work time
Share responses.
Activity
“Choose a different shape. Try to find smaller shapes you can use to build that shape.”
5 minutes: partner work time
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display a cube and a composite cube—for example, a cube composed of four small cubes and one rectangular prism.
Demonstrate putting the shapes together.
“What new shape did I make with the cube and the cube I made?”
“Put your shapes together to make a rectangular prism.”
Display a rectangular prism and two triangular prisms.
“Find these shapes. Put them together. What new shape can you make?” (a cube, a rectangular block)


Mathematical concept/skill options: 
A. Reason with shapes and their attributes.
B. Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.
C. Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.
D. Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section.
E. Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.
F. Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
G. Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
H. Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.
I. Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
J. Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.
K. Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems.
L. Prove theorems involving similarity.
M. Prove geometric theorems.
N. Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
O. Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.
P. Apply trigonometry to general triangles.
Q. Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
R. Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
S. Make geometric constructions.
T. Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations.
U. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
V. Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
W. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
X. Understand and apply theorems about circles.
Y. Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.
Z. Experiment with transformations in the plane.
AA. Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles.


Thought: This activity asks students to reason how shapes can combine to make other shapes.
Answer: A

Now, assign the following problem or activity to one or more relevant mathematical concepts/skills it teaches.
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options: Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.

Prove theorems involving similarity.

Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations.

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).

Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.

Understand and apply theorems about circles.

Experiment with transformations in the plane.

Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems.

Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.

Apply trigonometry to general triangles.

Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.

Make geometric constructions.

Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section.

Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.

Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

Prove geometric theorems.

Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.

Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles.

Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.

Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.
problem_activity: Activity
In this activity students continue to use coordinate transformation notation, but now without the scaffolding of an organizing structure like a table. Students apply transformation rules, then describe the results. One transformation is of a type students have not seen before (the horizontal stretch that is not a dilation).
In the synthesis, students will connect the geometric description of a reflection to the coordinate rule that produces it. They will also draw a conclusion about rules that produce a dilation versus those that produce a stretch in only 1 direction.
Monitor for students who erroneously call the horizontal stretch a dilation. Encourage students to refer to their reference charts for help in attending to precision when describing transformations they’ve learned about.
Making dynamic geometry software available gives students an opportunity to choose appropriate tools strategically (MP5).
Launch
Conversing: MLR2 Collect and Display.
As students work on this activity, listen for and collect the language students use to describe each transformation of quadrilateral
\(ABCD\)
. Write the students’ words and phrases on a visual display. As students review the visual display, ask them to revise and improve how ideas are communicated. For example, a statement such as, “The shape was flipped upside down” can be improved with the statement, “Quadrilateral
\(ABCD\)
was reflected across the
\(x\)
-axis.” This will help students use the mathematical language necessary to precisely describe transformations of figures on the coordinate plane.
Design Principle(s): Optimize output (for explanation); Maximize meta-awareness
Student Facing
[IMG]
Here are some transformation rules. Apply each rule to quadrilateral
\(ABCD\)
and graph the resulting image. Then describe the transformation.
Label this transformation
\(Q\)
:
\((x,y) \rightarrow (2x,y)\)
Label this transformation
\(R\)
:
\((x,y) \rightarrow (x,\text-y)\)
Label this transformation
\(S\)
:
\((x,y) \rightarrow (y,\text-x)\)
Student Response
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Student Facing
Are you ready for more?
[IMG]
Plot the quadrilateral with vertices
\((4,\text-2),(8,4),(8,\text-6),\)
and
\((\text-6,\text-6)\)
. Label this quadrilateral
\(A\)
.
Plot the quadrilateral with vertices
\((\text-2,4),(4,8),(\text-6,8),\)
and
\((\text-6,\text-6)\)
. Label this quadrilateral
\(A'\)
.
How are the coordinates of quadrilateral
\(A\)
related to the coordinates of quadrilateral
\(A'\)
?
What single transformation takes quadrilateral
\(A\)
to quadrilateral
\(A'\)
?
Student Response
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Anticipated Misconceptions
If students struggle to keep their work organized, suggest they create a table of inputs and outputs, or create another organizational structure that works for them.
Some students may not be sure how to work with the rule
\((x,y)\rightarrow (y,\text-x)\)
. Ask these students, “What are the coordinates of point
\(A\)
?” (
\((3,\text-4)\)
.) “Which of those is the
\(x\)
-coordinate?” (3.) “In the transformation rule, where does the
\(x\)
land, and what happens to it?” (The
\(x\)
-coordinate lands in the
\(y\)
spot, and it takes on an opposite sign.) Another option is to suggest students write out
\(x=3\)
and
\(y=\text-4\)
, then substitute each value into the transformation rule.
Activity Synthesis
The goal of the discussion is to make connections between the coordinate rules and the geometric descriptions of transformations. Start with these discussion questions:
“In the previous activity, one rule was
\((x,y)\rightarrow (2x,2y)\)
. In this activity, one rule was
\((x,y)\rightarrow (2x,y)\)
. Compare and contrast these rules.” (In the first rule, both coordinates were multiplied by 2. It is stretched both vertically and horizontally by the same factor. The second rule just had the
\(x\)
-coordinate multiplied by 2. It was only stretched in one direction.)
“Can we call
\((x,y)\rightarrow (2x,y)\)
a dilation? Why or why not?” (No. In a dilation, the figure is stretched in all directions by the same factor, not just 1 direction. Also, in this example we can see that the angles of the dilated figure are not congruent to the angles in the original.)
“Can we call
\((x,y)\rightarrow (2x,y)\)
a translation? Why or why not?” (No. A translation is a rigid motion—it produces a result that does not change size or shape.)
Now ask students, “The rule
\((x,y) \rightarrow (x, \text-y)\)
is a reflection across the
\(x\)
-axis. Look at the definition of a reflection on your reference chart. Why does this rule produce a reflection?” Guide students through the different aspects of the geometric definition of a reflection. Consider displaying an image of the solution and drawing segments that connect pairs of original and image points. Important ideas that should surface are:
The
\(y\)
-coordinates of the original and image points have the same absolute value, so the distance from the
\(x\)
-axis is the same for each.
The sign of the image’s
\(y\)
-coordinate is opposite the original, so the image is on the opposite sign of the axis as the original.
Connecting the image and original points, we get a vertical line because the
\(x\)
-coordinates are the same. So this segment is perpendicular to the line of reflection, or the
\(x\)
-axis.


correct_option_index: 8